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Eric Herboso ๐Ÿ”
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ExecDir . Philosophy nerd intent on doing the most good. Veg*n, rationalist, skeptic, poly. #EffectiveAltruism #longtermism Iโค๏ธvideo/boardgames.
Germantown, MDericherboso.orgJoined February 2008

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After 205+ hours played in the last 30 days, I finally ran the end credits of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. (Please don't do the math on how much I played per day; it's embarrassing, especially w/ only 58% completion.) TotK is honestly my favorite game of all time.
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Almost missed my 501c3 IRS tax deadline today because I took a #ZeldaTearsOfKingdom mini-vacation this past weekend away from my phone and other internet. On Sat/Sun, I received messages about it but didn't check my phone until early this morning. Thankfully, it'll be on time.
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Breath of the Wild was already my favorite game of all time. But Tears of the Kingdom has fixed nearly all the tiny gripes I had with the last entry. I'm only half a day in and am already utterly amazed at how good this game really is. #zelda
Iโ€™m increasingly concerned about Microsoftโ€™s blasรฉ attitude to AI risk. First there was the Bing launch, where it exhibited a vengeant personalityโ€”threatening to kill an AI ethics researcher and to expose a journalist for war crimes for having written a negative story about Bing.
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I'm so very excited to hear many great things about the upcoming #B5AnimatedMovie; the #Babylon5 universe is an all time favorite sci-fi setting for me, surpassed only by #TheExpanse. I've been a fan of B5 ever since being introduced by way back in my college days.
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I'm ridiculously excited about the #B5AnimatedMovie because it feels the most B5-ish of anything we've done since the original show. Warners was terrific in giving me the freedom to write the story I wanted, and the animation is phenomenal. It's fun, deep, emotional, classic B5.
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Today, I called my insurance company for a clerical reason. It was fixed in ~2 min. The phone rep ended by asking if I had any complaints about my insurance. I said no, I was quite happy. They then read through a script of how sorry they were & how they empathized w/ my concerns.
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In the interest of helping to reduce mental illness stigma, I'd like to share that I am starting SSRIs today. A few years ago, I tried to solve the issue w/o drugs. After continual failed progress, I'm now trying SSRIs.
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Yesterday, I failed pretty hard on something important to me. I caused undue stress & work for a loved one by saying I would be somewhere to help but was an hour late due to needless oversleeping. Ultimately no lasting harm was done. But I feel terrible for letting them down. )c:
Imagine you're about to get on an airplane and 48% of the engineers that built the airplane say there's a >=10% chance that their plane might crash and kill everyone. Would you get on that plane? That's where we are at with AI right now.
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I think it's important to say that the AI Safety movement may well have done more harm than good by speeding up AI progress. That said, my best guess is that in a world where the movement never existed, AI is at most a couple of years behind, but AI Safety isn't a thing. /1
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I signed 's open letter to Pause Giant AI Experiments because, if implemented, it would at least be a step to get people to think more carefully about this issue. It might cause us to take #AIAlignment more seriously during the moratorium period.
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What OpenAI says: "... we are becoming increasingly cautious with the creation and deployment of our models ... a slower takeoff is easier to make safe, and coordination among AGI efforts to slow down at critical junctures will likely be important" What they do: LOOOOOL ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€
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BREAKING: .@Microsoft CTO announces: GPT-4 is coming next week! The model will be multimodal, including video features. #AI #ChatGPT #Bing heise.de/news/GPT-4-is-
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Feeling sad about a friend's death. แผ”ฯƒฯ‡ฮฑฯ„ฮฟฯ‚ แผฯ‡ฮธฯแฝธฯ‚ ฮบฮฑฯ„ฮฑฯฮณฮตแฟ–ฯ„ฮฑฮน แฝ ฮธฮฌฮฝฮฑฯ„ฮฟฯ‚. Mors delenda est.
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My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user" Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby
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Bing subreddit has quite a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control. Open ended chat in search might prove to be a bad idea at this time! Captured here as a reminder that there was a time when a major search engine showed this in its results.
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